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We’re excited to be linking up with Stephanie from Falling into First for her Meet the Teacher Blogger linky party.

HERE IS A LITTLE ABOUT US:

We met the summer before Lisa (that's me!) started her junior year of high
school when Jonathan was entering college. We dated a few months before Lisa
broke up with Jonathan.Our families did
game nights and hung out so we got to know each other better that way.Lisa realized she made a mistake in breaking
up with Jonathan and that he was an amazingly respectful, smart, godly man. She
asked him to her junior prom and they’ve been together ever since and married for
12 of those years.

Jonathan has been teaching for 13 years. When school starts
back up he will be teaching 7th & 8th grade English
and creative writing at a charter school in Southern California.

Lisa taught first and second grade before she made the leap
of faith into being a full-time mommy.

THESE ARE A FEW OF OUR FAVORITE THINGS . . .

Lisa:Traveling. Sweets.
Sleeping. Photography. Reading. Walking. PiYo. Dancing. Music. Laughing. Kids
giggling. Hearing people’s life stories. Hume Lake. Riding trains (especially
in Europe). My friends. When people brush or braid my hair. Looking at home
floor plans and going to open houses. Being able to wake up naturally from
sleep (not by an alarm or child poking me). Theater . . . one of my favorite
things about teaching is the performance aspect involved in keeping the
children’s attention.

Jonathan:Bono, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Jesus, and Hitler. (Lisa
can come too.) With those people all together and Jesus turning all kinds of
water into wine for Adolf, history is bound to end up differently.

Q: IF SOMEONE WROTE A BOOK ABOUT YOUR LIFE, WHAT WOULD BE
THE TITLE?

Q:YOU GET TO PICK ONE SUPERPOWER. WHAT IS IT?

Lisa: the ability to magically clean my house

Jonathan: Telekinesis. If I could somehow keep an extension
cord or hose from getting tangled while I use it, my life just might be
complete. Also I’d be able to move toys out of my way in the dark without
having to bend over.

Q: WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE QUOTE OR SAYING?

Lisa: “Let all that you do be done in love.” 1 Corinthians
16:14

Jonathan: “God will wipe every tear from their eyes. There
will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of
things has passed away.”

Q: ARE YOU A MORNING PERSON OR A NIGHT OWL?

Lisa:My Multiple Meaning Word book which I just recently updated and made it editable in PDF. I'm so excited to upload the current product with the editable versions but I want to have some teachers try it first to make sure it is fully functioning and looks good. If people buy the current version they will be informed in an email through TpT when the updated version is ready to download. Until then, if anyone wants to try out the editable version, email me ( inthelight23 [@] hotmail [dot] com) and I'll send it to the first 15 people for no cost as long as you send me an email with your thoughts and possible edits.

Jonathan: I really love the Grammar Ninjas. Grammar can be
so boring for kids, so I wanted to come up with something that would be just
weird enough to hold their attention and sneak attack them so they didn’t
realize they were learning.

Q: SHARE SOMETHING WE MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT YOU!

Lisa: I was one of the girls that played Newt in Aliens 3. The
girl mentioned in the IMBD credits was the Newt on the table for the autopsy
scene.I was the Newt during the
beginning credits when Newt is sleeping in the pod and the alien hand goes over
the glass and the glass cracks.Yeah, it
was considered a stunt to have glass cracked over me. It was Newt’s implied death scene.

Jonathan:My wife and
I have been foster parents twice. We both have a heart to open our home to this
oft-overlooked community of kids and feel like our family can be a flawed gift
of home to a few of them, as far from perfect as we most certainly are.

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